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Town Beach Ferrisburgh Vermont 2024 |
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Pray for Peace
Reflection Monday July 2025
Is It Just Me?
Update 11 July 2025: Stats are back to normal, no old posts, and the bot is gone, no inflated numbers.
Update 8 July 2025: The research of my blog continues as somebody appears to be reading every published post. It does feel unsettling.
In the last few weeks, my blog stats are showing posts from over a year ago or more. Even in the last 24 hours, the stats are for old posts.
Usually that means somebody is researching your blog. Given my great upset about Salty Pumpkin being in a website title selling online, it is a possible reason there is research.
This has happened in the past a few times but not as much as now.
Are your general stats for 7 days and 24 hours for old blog posts?
Thank you
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Silver Mound |
Day 186 if Week 27 July 2025
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Lake Champlain in July 2025 |
Interesting tid-bit about a smart television, Bluetooth pairing request pop up notice shows up on my TV screen.
A Google search later, i learn that a device is trying to connect to my TV. Instructions show you can turn off the Bluetooth connection in settings. Done.
I wonder if that feature is automatically on when the television is set up or somebody turned it on. Anyway, it is off now. What else will pop up?
Have a No Pop Ups Weekend!
The Petunias & the Milkweed
Big Dreams
If a very precious big dream falls apart, then does the mind go with it?
No, the mind is created to continue dreaming.
That’s what I do when life brings me sorrow. I tend my wounds with lovely dreams as I mourn the loss. Giving yourself permission to face reality in grief, I feel, is healing.
Dealing with this horrible spell check program is another story! It is crucial to read your text before publishing because words can be changed in sometimes hideous ways. For example, I was appalled when a simple reply I wrote read like a disgusting page from a porn novel because the spellcheck program added guessed words.
The guessed words part of spell check needs an off button. Better yet, go to the Browser settings>Languages and find the button to shut off spellcheck.
Good luck
Name Development
Ah, so it goes! Who are you in name presented to the world as a blogger, influencer, personality or business? Titles count.
Developing a name, as I see it, is a mix of your vibe vision and practicality. What feels good to you that the world out there will also be attracted to.
Based in my name development process:
- Begin with words that you feel connected to, like ocean, woods, canoe, cabin, nature. The words are starting points for brain storming, not necessarily to be used in a name. Use a thesaurus.
- List several to search online if the name is already being used or means something that does not express your vision. Add keywords like blog, website. book, podcast.
- Search the US Trademark register and your state business register
- Search domain name availability on a trusted domain host website. Add the, s, a and such in your searches.
- Sketch possible logos
- Rest the name for a few days or longer. Do Not Share it online, in an email or text.
- Once you are sure you like the name/title, know it is not in use already or too similar to a name in use, then buy the domain name adding the privacy feature.
- Set up your blog, your website unpublished.
- Adding-Buy the US trademark.
- Ducks in a row, go for it.
I highly stress to do thorough research to make sure your name is unique and not in use. And now that I’ve been sent into shock,
Buy the US Trademark!
Summer Photographs: Fields & Shade
Each week, a select photograph that depicts the season of Summer will be posted here on Mondays. The image can be any subject from an arranged still life to one simple scene that speaks Summer.
Here is a favorite from Summer 2024.
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Route 17 Addison Vermont |
Fairness For Blogs?
Advocating searching in various forms, your name and blog name as well as buying the domain names for both has been posted on this blog for years. *
Bird Sighting: Carolina Wren
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Carolina Wren February 2025 Vergennes, Vermont |
Would you look at that!
A first time sighting of a Carolina Wren is quite exciting. There were a few of them there scurrying around at the birdseed.
That is the best photo I have. When I set up the camera to hide my movements, they were nowhere to be seen. Birds.